Cornelis van Geelkerken

Cornelis van Geelkerken (19 March 1901-29 March 1976) was the co-founder of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands.

Biography
Cornelis van Geelkerken was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium in 1901, and his family moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1904. During the 1920s, he gravitated towards extreme nationalism, and he formed the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands with Anton Mussert due to his support for authoritarianism and his opposition to democracy. He directed the party's youth corps and became Inspector-General of the home guard during the German occupation of the Netherlands. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but he was released in 1959. He died in Ede in 1976.